Post by Ticket Mouse on Jan 28, 2009 9:28:07 GMT -5
www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/football/superbowl/orl-colgreene28012809jan28,0,391123.column
Dissed by a fiddler?
He wasn't wearing a red dress, but I had to ask when I saw a guy walking around with a violin. His "interpreter" informed me that he is George Durham, "the sports fiddler," working for a Dallas radio station. Supposedly, he can't talk so he communicates with his fiddle.
The fiddler hit a few notes and the interpreter said he was asking where I worked. I said Orlando Sentinel and he hit a note. According to the interpreter, the fiddler said I worked for "a rag." Hey, criticism is fair game but come on — from a fiddle?
(And it was a scam. I later saw the fiddler talking to the "interpreter." You just can't trust anybody in the media anymore.)
www.post-gazette.com/multimedia/?videoID=101468
www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bernies-extra-points/bernies-extra-points/2009/01/5-minutes-for-blogging-at-the-super-bowl-1-27/
So here were the top street performers in this year’s circus: (1) A woman toting a boom box, doing a “Dancing With the Stars” competition with members of each team for “Entertainment Tonight.” All I know is that a Steeler won, and a Cardinal won, and that the entire thing was very forced, and that somehow the video editors will make it look good. (2) a weirdo who billed himself as the “Sports Fiddler of East Texas,” walking around playing the fiddle for players who didn’t care. (3) Inez Sainz of the Azteca network in Mexico, a former bikini model, who walked around measuring players’ biceps, including those belonging to Arizona backup QB Matt Leinart. At least this gave party-boy Leinart something constructive to do. At one point Leinart told Sainz “it’s not very big,” and I’m not sure what the heck he was talking about, but knowing Leinart’s history we can probably expect some embarrassing photos to surface on the Internet at some point soon. (4) Telemundo TV’s Joel Bengoa, dressed in a red cocktail dress and a wig, proclaiming himself to be the “fairy godmother of the Arizona Cardinals,” and all along I thought that was Howard Balzer’s gig. (5) Chris Berman.
www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/16830/tsb_in_tampa_10_always_seen_at_media_day
The Gimmick Guy. I wasn’t able to figure out why this man brought a fiddle with him. The best I can figure is that he came to play a jig for his favorite Irish footballer, Larry Fitzgerald. (Note: Last year's Gimmick Guy was a ventriloquist. Far more interesting ... and creepy.)
www.thestar.com/Sports/article/578031
The goofball crowd was extremely limited, as these things tend to go. One guy in drag, one lady in a flowing sequined dress "dancing'' with the stars to the rhythms of a little boom-box and a whacko billed as "The Sports Fiddler of East Texas'' who played violin for players, however briefly. There were a couple of other weirdos satisfying the editors and program directors back home.
Dissed by a fiddler?
He wasn't wearing a red dress, but I had to ask when I saw a guy walking around with a violin. His "interpreter" informed me that he is George Durham, "the sports fiddler," working for a Dallas radio station. Supposedly, he can't talk so he communicates with his fiddle.
The fiddler hit a few notes and the interpreter said he was asking where I worked. I said Orlando Sentinel and he hit a note. According to the interpreter, the fiddler said I worked for "a rag." Hey, criticism is fair game but come on — from a fiddle?
(And it was a scam. I later saw the fiddler talking to the "interpreter." You just can't trust anybody in the media anymore.)
www.post-gazette.com/multimedia/?videoID=101468
www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bernies-extra-points/bernies-extra-points/2009/01/5-minutes-for-blogging-at-the-super-bowl-1-27/
So here were the top street performers in this year’s circus: (1) A woman toting a boom box, doing a “Dancing With the Stars” competition with members of each team for “Entertainment Tonight.” All I know is that a Steeler won, and a Cardinal won, and that the entire thing was very forced, and that somehow the video editors will make it look good. (2) a weirdo who billed himself as the “Sports Fiddler of East Texas,” walking around playing the fiddle for players who didn’t care. (3) Inez Sainz of the Azteca network in Mexico, a former bikini model, who walked around measuring players’ biceps, including those belonging to Arizona backup QB Matt Leinart. At least this gave party-boy Leinart something constructive to do. At one point Leinart told Sainz “it’s not very big,” and I’m not sure what the heck he was talking about, but knowing Leinart’s history we can probably expect some embarrassing photos to surface on the Internet at some point soon. (4) Telemundo TV’s Joel Bengoa, dressed in a red cocktail dress and a wig, proclaiming himself to be the “fairy godmother of the Arizona Cardinals,” and all along I thought that was Howard Balzer’s gig. (5) Chris Berman.
www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/16830/tsb_in_tampa_10_always_seen_at_media_day
The Gimmick Guy. I wasn’t able to figure out why this man brought a fiddle with him. The best I can figure is that he came to play a jig for his favorite Irish footballer, Larry Fitzgerald. (Note: Last year's Gimmick Guy was a ventriloquist. Far more interesting ... and creepy.)
www.thestar.com/Sports/article/578031
The goofball crowd was extremely limited, as these things tend to go. One guy in drag, one lady in a flowing sequined dress "dancing'' with the stars to the rhythms of a little boom-box and a whacko billed as "The Sports Fiddler of East Texas'' who played violin for players, however briefly. There were a couple of other weirdos satisfying the editors and program directors back home.
